Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-01-20

out OF WORK.
A RECENT dispatch from New York said
that at least 10000 men had been thrown
out of employment. and that large number
of persons were suffering as result of the
strike of $4,000 coal handlers.
THE WEST.
REV. l.. G. NUETzEL, of the Trinity
Lutheran Church, in Oshkosh, WIS, re-
Gently announced from the pulpit that he
would preach a sermon devoted entirely TO
the Knights of Labor, and if, after that the
members of his church persisted in belong
ing to the order, he would expel them from
the church.
VHRGHo RUSHING q Co., OF chicago, ex-
tensive dealers in druggists sundries and
toys, assigned recently. Liabilities, S102,-
600: assets not stated. The failure occa-
stoned great surprise.
THE boiler of Panhandle locomotive blew
up at Dennison, o., recently just as 1t start
ed across the Grandchildren bridge The
engineer, fireman and conductor escaped
without serious injury. The engine was
total wreck.
JOHN A. MARTIN was inaugurated Gov
ornor of Kansas on the 10th at Topeka
for his second term, six ex-Governors being
in attendance and taking part in the cere-
monies,
WILLIAM NJ STEWART was recently
elected Senator from Nevada.
THE Straw board Manufacturers Associ-
alton of the United States was in session
at Cleveland, o., recently. The conference
was private one, and no details were fur
nished the newspapers.
THE Jury in the case of Hamilton, the
alleged train wrecker, in the Wyandotte
district court, had not agreed upon YER
dict early on the morning of the 18th. The
Judge was reported as saying that he would
hold the jury until the end of the term if
they did not arrive at a verdict.
Miss FANNIE V. BALDWIN, a handsome
young woman, claiming to be niece of
Lucky Baldwin, the California million
aire, was in police station IN Chicago, and
was said to be insane.
ROBERT CHOTEAU, living in the Cherokee
Nation, 1. T., fell from his horse in creek
the other day and was frozen to death. He
was drunk.
THE executive committee of the United
Labor party, of Cincinnati, o., met the other
night and adopted the platform of the
United Labor party of New York, with
some changes necessary to Cincinnati.
SAN Francisco was rocked from east to
west by IN earthquake short time ago,
which lasted seven seconds. No damage
was done.
HENRY CHAMBERLAIN, of Three Oaks,
Mich, threatened to bring impeachment
proceedings against Governor Luce re-
Gently, on the ground that he was mem
Der of the State Board of Agriculture when
elected, the constitution making him there
by ineligible.
IT was limited in Cincinnati that Prof. r.
Scatter, the book swindler who committed
suicide in Jail recently, was the bomb
thrower of the Chicago Haymarket riot.
ROBERT HoLsEY and Tiffany Rail were
frightfully burned at Lima, o., short time
ago and will die.
THREE breweries in Detroit, Mich, re-
Gently succumbed to the boycott.
GOVERNOR JOHN A. MARTIN delivered his
biennial message to the Legislature of Kan
sas on the 18th.
A DISPATCH from Kanhakee, Ill, a short
time ago said that wild freight going east
on the Indiana, Illinois q Iowa railroad was
ditched by broken rail near Senebury.
The wreck caught fire, and Conductor Don
Baker, who was asleep in the caboose, was
burned to death. Four cars of -four were
consumed.
A COLUMBUS (Wis.) dispatch recently
said that Ex-Governor James I. Lewis was
stricken with paralysis. One side was
completely disabled. He was not expected
to recover.
THE coal miners near Washington, O.. re-
Gently struck for an advance of ten cents a
ton.
A FEARFUL railroad wreck took place on
the Missouri Pacific near Dunbar, Neb. on
the night of the 18th. \ south-cound eX-
press train was wrecked by which Engineer
James Dewitt, of Wyandotte, Kan was
killed, the express messenger, Frank Chen
oweth, of Kansas City, Mo-, fatally injured
and several others hurt. The accident was
caused by the removal of two rails by some
malicious persons. D. w. Hoffman and
James Bell We're arrested and lodged in Jail
on the charge of committing the deed.
The Chicago Drug and Chemical Com
pany short time ago confessed judgments
for S5S.OO0, principally to George II. Ehret,
the New York brewer.
The United States inspectors of steam
vessels, Which recently held sitting in St
Louis, found that the chief engineer of the
steamer La Mascotte was chiefly response
bic for the blowing up of that vessel last
October by allowing too much steam to ac-
cumulate.
AT Ortonville, Mimi, short time ago.
Mr.. and Mrs King were found in bed
apparently dead and the house full of coal
gas Everything was done to resuscitate
them and Mr. King may rally and recover.
His wife was dead.
Four hundred coal miners of Washing
tonville. o., struck recently for increased
wages.
PAUL F. PERRAULr, bookkeeper of the
Joseph Bausch Brewing Company, Hough-
ton, Mich, was lately arrested for stealing
$1,000
THE San Francisco police recently found
another bomb in Q sewer.
In the circuit court at Indianapolis. Ind.
on the 18th, in the application filed by Presi-
dent Green Smith, of the Senate, praying
for an injunction restraining Lieutenant
Governor Robertson from performing the
duties of his Office, the attorneys for the
latter moved for q continuance until after
the adjournment OF the Legislature. Judge
Ayres overruled the motion, and gave Rob
ertson until the next day to answer Smiths
complaint.